每一个国家的公民宪法都应当是共和制的。

The civil constitution of every state shall be republican.

政治必须在道德面前屈膝。

True politics can never take a step without first having paid homage to morals.

理性的第一任务在于厘清自己能力的边界。

The primary task of reason is to determine the boundaries of its own power.

美是无目的的合目的性。

Beauty is the form of finality in an object, so far as it is perceived in it apart from the representation of an end.

自由即自律。

Freedom is autonomy.

感性无知性则盲，知性无感性则空。

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

The mind intent upon resolving as well as compounding the concept of a composite demands and presumes boundaries in which it may acquiesce in the former as well as in the latter direction.

对真理的追求本身就是一种无尚尊贵的精神历程。

The pursuit of truth is itself a noble journey of the human spirit.

天才是赋予艺术以规则的才能。

Genius is the talent (natural gift) which gives the rule to art.

美是道德的象征。

The beautiful is the symbol of the morally good.

我不得不限制知识，以便为信仰留出领地。

I had to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.

Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.

有两样东西，人们越是经常和持久地对它们进行思考，它们在大脑中唤起的那种惊奇和敬畏就越是新鲜和不断增加：我头上的灿烂星空和我心中的道德法则。

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

读书而不思考，容易使头脑沦为他人思想的跑马场。

Reading without thinking is apt to turn the mind into an arena for others' opinions.

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.

理性如果没有爱，就会变得冷酷；爱如果没有理性，就会失去方向。

Reason without love becomes cold; love without reason loses its course.

In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

怀疑主义是理性的休息站，但绝不是理性的终点站。

Skepticism is a resting-place for human reason, but not a dwelling-place for permanent settlement.

自我意识是使一切经验概念得以统一的终极枢纽。

Self-consciousness is the ultimate synthesis through which all experiential concepts are unified.

历史的进程表面上充满无序与偶然，但深处却潜藏着自然理性的隐秘法则。

The course of history may seem chaotic, but it hides a secret design of nature.

The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend

同情心若无理性的引导，往往容易流于盲目的冲动。

Sympathy without the guidance of reason often degenerates into a blind impulse.

To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized